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How to add/edit your own project files (Advanced)

April 10, 2017

So you know your GitHub from your BitBucket or you know your Gcode from your STL. Welcome..

As well as the super simple “Add” system you can have more control over your projects on Open Assistive by adding & maintaining your own project files. There are a few different ways in achieving this depending on your level of knowledge of GitHub and Markdown;

Host your descriptor file yourself. Create a plain-text file called YourProjectName.md in a folder accessible by the world. This could be a dropbox folder that you then share - or it could be on a webserver somewhere. It needs to have some ‘metadata’ in the header which looks like this: